BangerTV's BEST METAL ALBUMS OF 2021 | BangerTV pick our favorite albums

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The BangerTV team reveals their favourite metal albums of 2021
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Blayne's pick:
Heavy Sentence - Bang to Rights
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Sam's pick:
Gojira - Fortitude
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Brad's pick: Vomit The Soul - Cold
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Daniel Dekay's pick: Unto Others - Strength
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Martin's pick: Lake of Tears - Ominous
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Sarah's pick: Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime
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Dylan's pick: Between the Burried and Me - Colors II
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Riley's Pick: Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking
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Sam's Pick: Scarlxrd DeadRising
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[@BangerTV]

Let us know what you think of our picks and most importantly shoutout your favorite albums in the comments.

[@joebates7545]

they were good

[@anthonymarano7829]

Sam's Pick surprised me. Thought for sure he would have gone with Senjutsu. But Foritude fuckn rocks as well.

[@alfredopliego6706]

Check out Drowsy Waves - Deflecting Mirror if you're looking for atmospheric alternative ;)

[@venkateshg3171]

@@anthonymarano7829 Yes, how and why Senjutsu was ignored ?

[@anthonymarano7829]

@@venkateshg3171 I really don't know!? That album is a Master work!

[@Lanisteelerocks]

It's so nice to see father and son hanging out talking about their favorite albums of the year!

[@mikewright3633]

Hahahahaga

[@curadplastic_ass7256]

@@swampcrypt I think it was a joke. They look very similar.

[@7hink]

@@swampcrypt either that, or they're the same person before and after no-nut November.

[@curadplastic_ass7256]

@@7hink I like your explanation better 😅😂😂

[@HurtsDonuts99]

🤣🤣🤣

[@keithchristen8497]

1. Worm - Foreverglade 2. Archspire - Bleed The Future 3. Alluvial - Sarcoma 4. Stormkeep - Tales Of Othertime 5. Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning

[@mercyfulnate]

I really liked the Blayne and Sam reactions to everyone’s picks. Great stuff!

[@PrimateNine]

I enjoyed it so much! I would love for it to become its own thing.

[@Hamptainment]

Especially to Sam's...00...wtf lol

[@jakefremantle560]

That was a great addition!

[@zenlocust]

When he's(Sam Dunn) the boss he's gotta be more open minded. It's fucking metal after all. If you can't open the brain and shovel all the metal shit in, wtf are you doing?? And Brad's being a douchebag. Seriously closed minded throughtout the entire thing. It's fine when he admits certain types aren't his thing but the visceral "WTF?!" shit? Nah...

[@jorge.olaechea]

For 2022: would be great to have lock horns back. Maybe a reissue of the HM family tree? Thanks for all the good work!!! Greetings from Perú 🇵🇪🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@erikbrowne8341]

Can we all just agree that no other genre of music does album art better than metal?

[@Jioti_Parcharides]

Sarah has a wonderful taste.. She's having a crush on epic but not cheesy sounding metal as she has proven with Havukruunu (just one example) in the past. I mean Stormkeep, Spectral wound and Morgul Blade are fantastic pic's of the year. I had trouble believing these are American bands.. THEY sound totally European. Anyway, congrats and thanks to the whole team for the best and devoted metal content on YT. You are all incredibly warm characters with much passion for what you do.

[@markn1090]

Spectral Wound is Canadian :)

[@premiumvanille183]

I love Sarahs picks!! She actually brought my Intention to Havukruunu, they are ond of my favorite Bands now. Stormkeep is definitely also on my top Album list this year.

[@Jioti_Parcharides]

@@markn1090 ah, okay.. Didn't know. For me as an European guy it's just excellent stuff from "over there". 😜 Canada is plausible, because you need plenty of forests around to write stuff like Spectral wound.

[@shawnsmith8558]

@@Jioti_Parcharides theyre from the city though :p

[@Jioti_Parcharides]

@@shawnsmith8558 Crazy, they are beyond every stereotype 🙉 but still awesome

[@trroland1248]

I appreciate the photo of Riley Gayle in Mr. Decay’s background. Rest in Power, Riley.

[@Nightbreed82]

1. Hypocrisy - Worship 2. Carcass - Torn Arteries 3. Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers 4. Thy Catafalque - Vadak 5. Archspire - Bleed The Future

[@SleepFan771]

Spiritbox - Eternal Blue Jinjer - Wallflowers Epica - Omega Interloper - Search Party Obscura - A Valediction Deafheaven - Infinite Granite Lantlos - Wildhund Mastodon - Hushed and Grim Evergrey - Escape of the Phoenix Lorna Shore - ...And I Return To Nothingness

[@rocioiribe5841]

i resonate with your list as well. Obscura came out so late but the little bit i've heard so far i really like.

[@joshmeehan8085]

I agree with Sam that this was the year of death metal. My faves from this year, in no order, are: Carcass - Torn Arteries Rivers of Nihil - The Work Abraded - Abraded 200 Stab Wounds - Slave to the Scapel Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined Archspire - Bleed the Future Cynic - Ascension Codes Thanks for all the sick metal content 🤘

[@HarambeKojima]

Nice list. I'd concur on most of them myself.

[@amirfld6375]

For me: Tribulation - Where Gloom Becomes Sound Whitechapel - Kin Deafheaven - Infinite Granite Gojira - Fortitude Archpire - Bleed The Future Cynic - Ascension Codes Hell of a year for metal 🔥

[@joeyuzwa891]

Infinite granite isn’t metal, it’s shoegaze.

[@amirfld6375]

@@joeyuzwa891 I know that bro. but there are black metal vibes in there specially in the last tracks of the album like Mombasa. their previous albums were totally black metal and post metal. so it fits in my list.

[@rocioiribe5841]

@@amirfld6375 also, your list is your list.

[@dustinhurt4274]

I'm surprised there isn't more love for Kin. I historically haven't been much of a Whitechapel fan, but Kin is phenomenal! I think I've listened to it more than Torn Arteries

[@amirfld6375]

@@dustinhurt4274 You know, some albums are so particularly good that only time would show their true value. there aren't many like Whitechapel out there to release such risky and ambitious album like kin.

[@nwebster2012]

1. Every Time I Die-Radical 2. Converge-Blood Moon 3. Summoning the Lich-United in Chaos 4. Employed to Serve-Conquering 5. Gojira-Fortitude 6. Frontierer-Oxidized 7. Mastodon-Hushed and Grim 8. Inferi-Vile Genesis 9. Deviant Process- Nurture 10. Vildhjarta-Masstadan Under Vatten

[@orrfannut9527]

Knocked Loose - A Tear in the Fabric of Life. The most brutal listening experience I've had in a decade.

[@F4RB3YONDM3T4L]

Dragon Ball fans can't read its metalcore

[@robiu013]

Guess my top 5 in no particular order would be something along the lines of: Panopticon - ...and Again Into the Light, Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Blood Moon Vol. 1, Every Time I Die - Radical, mol - Diorama & Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana

[@mikeb4858]

That Panopticon is great. Drags you through all the feels and ultimately leaves you elated.

[@NbleSavage]

Can't believe its taken this long to see ETID on here. Good on ye.

[@robiu013]

@@NbleSavage tbh, first album for me. for some reason all these "sentence as a name"-bands all blended into some idea of generic melodic metalcore to me. Everytime I Die proved me wrong. It's just a legitimately fun and consistent record.

[@audreytucker1842]

My top 5 (yes, I am a prog metal/tech death person): 1. Etemen Ænka- Dvne 2. Gloire Éternelle- First Fragment 3. Access all Worlds- IOTUNN 4.Colors II- BTBAM 5. Bleed the Future- Archspire

[@kevinslater2981]

First fragment is definitely my album of the year, I'd put it as one of my favourite tech death albums ever

[@MoreGamingTeam]

1. BAEST - Necro Sapiens 2. Obscura - A Valediction 3. Blood Red Throne - Imperial Congregation 4. Aborted - ManiaCult 5. Archspire - Bleed the Future

[@deathstruggle4136]

Baest released a killer one with necro sapiens! Sea of vomit is my favorite song on this killer album!

[@alfie.6652]

My list: 1. Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime 2. Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm 3. Darkthrone - Eternal Hails...... 4. Bewitcher - Cursed Be Thy Kingdom 5. BAEST - Necro Sapiens Honourable Mentions: Cognizance - Upheaval Këkht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst Hoverkraft - Schwebende Musik Blaze Bayley - War Within Me Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

[@diosrightcalfmuscle4090]

Seeing Blayne and Sam try to react to and understand Scarlxrd is one of the funniest things Banger has every filmed. Hats off to Sam Astoroth for that massive curveball.

[@SergeantFive]

28:46 Laughed my ass off

[@SolarAdrift]

Almost as good as Blayne talking about Spiritbox

[@SamAstaroth]

Haha i am glad you found that enjoyable! I knew it would be an oddball pick 😅🤘🏽

[@SamAstaroth]

@@SolarAdrift that was hilarious too 🤣 i love Spiritbox 🤘🏽

[@Naruto735]

@@SolarAdrift When did they talk about spiritbox?

[@pokemonmandude222]

I'm late to the party but here's my picks for 2021. Parentheses is my favorite song off the album. 1. Archspire - Bleed the Future (Acrid Cannon) 2. Gojira - Fortitude (Amazonia) 3. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim (Eyes of Serpents) 4. Rivers of Nihil - The Work (The Void From Which No Sound Escapes) 5. Carcass - Torn Arteries (The Scythes Remorseless Swing) 6. Between the Buried And Me - Colors II (Future Shock/ Neverseen) 7. Whitechapel - Kin (Anticure) 8. Obscura - A Valediction (When Stars Collide) 9. Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm (Transcendence) 10. Ophidian I - Desolate (Diamonds) 11. Cannibal Corpse -Violence Unimagined (Condemnation Contagion) 12. At The Gates - The Nightmare of Being (Garden of Cyrus) 13. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu (The Parchment) 14. Darkthrone - Eternal Hails... (Hate Cloak) 15. Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell (Scattered into Dark) Honorable Mention: Steel Bearing Hand - Slay In Hell (Lich Gate)

[@johnthebiker300]

Great list. I think I like every album listed that I have heard.

[@ericfrehlich8800]

Mastodon is, for sure underrated. Such a great album

[@MIKELiscrazy]

Don’t forget to check out these albums before the end of the year! Rivers of Nihil - The Work Primordial Ooze - Parasitic Intoxicant Backxwash - I Lie Here Buried With My Rings And My Dresses Victory Over The Sun - Nowherer Body Void - Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth Violet Cold - Empire of Love Pupil Slicer - Mirrors Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb Worm - Foreverglade

[@bobsala7780]

To add to the diversity, I'm going to be that guy who picks all tech death albums for album of the year, of which mine are: Archspire - Bleed The Future Ophidian I - Desolate Rivers of Nihil - The Work First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle

[@mikeb4858]

Archspire made my top 3 as well. Pummeling.

[@Cesar_94]

The only band I didn't know from your picks was Ophidian I, just listened to them, fucking awesome!!!! thank you!!!

[@fartvader84yearsago8]

Dude, never heard of Ophidian I before. Awesome recommendation

[@DrTurdsley]

This channel always reminds me that I'm really not a metal head, I just like some metal.

[@BangerTV]

and thats ok!

[@DrTurdsley]

@@BangerTV And I still like your channel.

[@TheRealJoeNathan]

1. Rivers of Nihil - The Work 2. Inferi - Vile Genesis 3. Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon 4. BTBAM - Colors II 5. Panopticon - And Again Into the Light 6. Neal Morse - Innocence & Danger 7. Cradle of Filth - Existence is Futile 8. Archspire - Bleed the Future 9. Obscura - A Valediction 10. Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World

[@AlternateFropile]

The lack of Vile Genesis in the majority of these comments is criminal! My top 2 aoty are the same as yours, reversed.

[@TheRealJoeNathan]

@@AlternateFropile I know right! I've been playing both albums nonstop since they released.

[@matthedden733]

My top 5 of the year In no particular order Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers, Khemmis - Deciever, Wolftooth - Blood and Iron, Mastodon - Hushed and Grim Jinjer - wallflowers And an honourable mention to Bongzilla - Weedsconsin

[@guto5986]

My Top 50 List. Ranked from 1 to 20. From 21 to 50 is unranked and in alphabetical order: 01. Mastodon - Hushed And Grim 02. Between The Buried And Me - Colors II 03. Gojira - Fortitude 04. Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon 05. Carcass - Torn Arteries 06. Rivers Of Nihil - The Work 07. Boss Keloid - Family The Smiling Thrush 08. Vokonis - Odyssey 09. Moonspell - Hermitage 10. Helloween - Helloween 11. Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World 12. Aephanemer - A Dream Of Wilderness 13. Vintage Caravan - Monuments 14. Bewitcher - Cursed Be Thy Kingdom 15. Dread Sovereign - Alchemical Warfare 16. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined 17. Warrior Path - The Mad King 18. Ninkharsag - The Dread March Of Solemn Gods 19. Wolves In The Throne Room - Primordial Arcana 20. Horndal - Lake Drinker Baest - Necro Sapiens Craven Idol - Forked Tongues Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm Desaster - Churches Without Saints Dordeduh - Har Dvne - Etemen Ænka Enforced - Kill Grid Evergrey - Escape Of The Phoenix Fear Factory - Aggression Continuum Flotsam And Jetsam - Blood In The Water Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil Khemmis - Deceiver Leprous - Aphelion Livløs - And Then There Were None Monolord - Your Time To Shine Obscura - A Valediction Portrait - At One With None Powerwolf - Call Of The Wild Seven Spires - Gods Of Debauchery Skepticism - Companion Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers Thyrfing - Vanagandr Tower - Shock To The System Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound Vildhjarta - Måsstaden Under Vatten Wheel - Preserved In Time Wode - Burn In Many Mirrors Wormwood - Arkivet Wraith - Undo The Chains

[@elimarsilvanikock7818]

where is kk priest??????

[@uuupeipe]

Nice list! Check out VOLA - Witness

[@blrolz3544]

Colors 2 did not get the attention it deserves

[@MassHysteriaHD]

To me Vildhjarta had the best album of the past 5 years. I can't stress this enough. Nothing I've listened to in years matches up to it. All the other metal feels boring right now

[@bommelx6753]

My picks for 2021: 1) Carcass - Torn Arteries 2) Unto Others - Strength 3) Khemmis - Deceiver 4) Mastodon - Hushed and grim 5) Gojira - Fortitude 6) Bewitcher - Cursed by thy Kingdom 7) Hooded Menace - The tritonus Bell 8) Inhuman Condition - Rat°God 9) Duel - In Carne Persona 10) Green Lung - Black Harvest 11) Black Label Society - Doom Crew Inc.

[@rodolfoanaya1823]

Thanks guys for turning me to new music that I probably would never have found on my own. Excited for 2022.

[@EraOneSamael]

I'd have to say Iotunn's Access All Worlds is #1 for me. I've listened to it so many times this year. Other standouts: Yoth Iria - As the Flame Withers Archspire - Bleed the Future Unto Others - Strength Helloween - Helloween

[@fabOne2212]

Yes Access all worlds is a masterpiece !🤘

[@JohnnyMnemonic666]

Sarah knows what’s up! Mine were: WORM Suffering Hour Spectral Wound Portal Amenra

[@Viiniciws]

My picks: Between the Buried and Me - Colors II Archspire - Bleed The Future Frontierer - Oxidized

[@alancefali7825]

Great vídeo! Awesome picks. Some of my favorite albums released this year: Thy catafalque - Vadak Be'lakor - Coherence First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle Archspire - Bleed the future Cynic - Ascension Codes Hatalom - Occhiolism Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse

[@denniskirkegaardjensen3597]

1. Ophidian, I - Desolate. 2. Obscura - A Valediction. 3. Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon. Only vinyls I bought this year 😊🤘

[@uofksteel]

Exodus-Persona No Grata Iron Maiden- Senjutsu

[@arbersllamniku9651]

Great picks Blayne and Sarah. Its been a great year indeed, some of my picks would be: - Der weg einer freiheit - Noktvrn - Lvcifyre - The broken seal - Unto Others - Strength - Spectral Wound - A diabolic thirst - Grave Miasma - Abyss of Wrathful deities - Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime - Aborted - Maniacult - Craven Idols - Forged Tongues - Tardigrada - Von bruch bis zu freiheit - Suffering Hour - The cyclic reckoning - Night Crowned - Hädanfärd - Sielunvihollinen - Teloituskäsky - Worm - Foreverglade - Tribulation - where the gloom becomes sound - Hooded Menace - The tritounus bell - Fyrnask - VII: Kenoma - Altarage - Succumb - Exodus - Persona non grata

[@wastelander1015]

my top 10: 1.Thy Catafalque | Vadak 2.Helloween | Helloween 3.Impure Wilhelmina | Antidote 4.Blazon Stone | Damnation 5.Monolord | Your Time To Shine 6.Amenra | De Doorn 7.Wolves In The Throne Room | Primordial Arcana 8.Yoth Iria | As The Flame Withers 9.Brainstorm | Wall Of Skulls 10.Der Weg Einer Freiheit | Noktvrn

[@Homeslice130]

I love the old lock horns videos. I learned so much about styles of metal, bands, and great albums from those. Hope to see more in 2022!!!

[@ticocampbell2525]

I just love how the picks can be so diverse within metal itself, incredible!

[@pawnofmetal4987]

Good picks all around. Me personally: 1. Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning 2. Archspire - Bleed The Future 3. LLNN - Unmaker

[@QajarCoffee]

Suffering Hour is incredible. Great pick.

[@TheinvisibleorangeMetal]

100% Suffering Hour is my AOTY as well!

[@dmitryk6010]

Liked Llnn the most this year

[@ZombieEaters]

Stoked to hear shout-outs for Khemmis and Ominous. Both albums made my top ten. Latest Khemmis has so many layers to unravel and enjoy, and the latest Ominous took me back to the industrial days... really nostalgic and great.

[@engelbeer]

My favorite albums 2021 5 Khemmis- Deceiver 4 Exodus - Persona non grata 3 Cradle of Filth - existence is futile 2. Cannibal Corpse - Violence unimagined 1. Helloween - Helloween

[@elimarsilvanikock7818]

helloween yeah

[@volkankinaci1623]

It was such a joy to watch n' listen your pcks guys! 🤘 Here's my faves from this year; 1. Tribulation - Where the Gloom Becomes Sound 2. Carcass - Torn Arteries 3. Unto Others- Strength

[@Rose-From-the-Dead]

Just got back to my van from taking my cat for a walk, checked the time: 4:20, and also see the notification for this video. It;s a good day.

[@passionateintrovert]

Thanks so much, Banger crew! Couldn't feel happier to continue supporting y'all on Patreon. A+ content all year long. Also, so many good album picks by everyone. You sure covered the entire Spectral of genres. Some personal favorites I didn't see mentioned were: Empyrium - Über den Sternen Dordeduh - Har Paysage d'Hiver - Geister The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires Panopticon - ...and Again Into the Light Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning

[@bottishg]

my favorites of the year: Helloween - Helloween Fortress - Don`t spare the wicked Warrior Path - The Mad King Enforced - Kill Grind Unleashed - So sign of life Knife - Knife Space Chaser - Give us life Obscurity - Skogarmaors Iron Maiden - Senjutsu Bonded - Into blackness The Crown - Royal Destroyer Exodus - Persona Non Grata

[@aaroninlatin]

My list: Ad Nauseam- Imperative Imperceptible Impulse Worm- Foreverglade Demiser- Through the Gate Eternal Suffering Hour- The Cyclic Reckoning Spectral Wound- A Diabolic Thirst

[@Estorium]

I haven't heard the Demiser album, but the other 4 are all tops and definitely amongst my favourite of the year. Ad Nauseum and Worm in particular has been on constant rotation while I work, but all 4 are fantastic. I will check out Demiser.

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

Love that Worm album, and Ad Nauseam is insane, just heard that record last night. Think I need to finally need to look at Spectral Wound

[@NonceKillaz]

1: Bleed the future - Archspire 2: Burning in heaven - Sunnata 3: Migration - Bossk 4: The Ignorance - Filth 5: Bloodmoon: i - Converge and Chelsea Wolfe

[@gez9145]

Endseeker - Mount Carcass Inferi - Vile Genesis Carcass - Torn Arteries Stortregn - Impermanence

[@TheinvisibleorangeMetal]

My top metal albums of 2021: Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning The Ruins Of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers Cynic - Ascension Codes Antediluvian - The Divine Punishment Asphyx - Necroceros Majestic Downfall - Aorta Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon Hypocrisy - Worship Spellforger - Upholders Of Evil Carcass - Torn Arteries

[@laertesdd]

What a year! Here are some of my highlights: 1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet Archspire - Bleed the Future Between the Buried and Me - Colors II Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I Deafheaven - Infinite Granite Gojira - Fortitude Mastodon - Hushed and Grim Obscura - A Valediction Rivers of Nihil - The Work The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers

[@oinotnao1]

For me: 1 Gloire Éternelle - First Fragment 2 A Velediction - Obscura 3 Bleed the Future - Archspire

[@pjpwnsu]

Great year for tech death!

[@floriankubiak7313]

At least someone.

[@danieljesus5987]

My list includes: Nomadic Rituals - Tides Spelljammer- Abyss Trip Domkraft - Seeds Year of No Light - Consolamentum LLNN - Unmaker Bishop - s/t Sönma - Ether Praise the Plague - Obsidian Gate Perilaxe Occlusion - Raytraces of Death

[@rattlhed1]

LLNN's album is fantastic.. Didn't make my list because it came out so late, but as I continue to digest this album I may need to make room for it!

[@aestur1]

Love these best of videos. Please do genres, like: best black metal album of 2021, doom metal, death metal, etc.

[@bernardomvp]

My top for 2021: 1. Enforced - Kill Grid 2. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim 3. ERRA - ERRA 4. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined 5. Gojira - Fortitude And definitely looking forward to early 2022 Fit for an Autopsy new album, which will be 2022 best album ;)

[@dowens3781]

Tower are criminally overlooked.

[@uglypineapple03]

1. Cognizance - Upheaval 2. Obscura - A Valediction 3. Interloper - Search Party

[@anthonyjillali4287]

Best Metal albums of the year: 1. Trivium In the Court of the Dragon 2. Trivium In the Court of the Dragon 3. Mastodon Hushed and Grim 1st and 2nd spots are not a typo I just think Trivium was that good. :D

[@UziSuicide666]

Love the Powell Peralta and Mike McGill stickers on the laptop, boys!

[@8523wsxc]

I liked: Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst Urfaust - Compilation of Intoxications Marras - Endtime Sermon Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle Grima - Rotten Garden Swarrrm - ゆめをみたの

[@BattleSlain]

Bewitcher - Cursed be thy Kingdom Dark Throne - Eternal Hails Stormkeep - tales of othertime Sielunvihollinen - Teloituskäsky

[@csantana1971]

Will check Unto Others, my picks: - Exodus Persona Non Grata - Gojira - Fortitude - Carcass - Torn Arteries - BTBAM - Colors II - Flotsam and Jetsam - Blood in the water I need to also check Asphyx and Archapire… and Lucifer’s Fall… they were not in my radar

[@rattlhed1]

Highly recommend you check out Rivers of Nihil "The Work" if you liked BTBAM. Another complex album with a lot different styles.

[@Stonerising]

Icelandic Brennivin on that bar - much respect from Iceland!

[@mathias8627]

Gojira and Stormkeep had banging records this year, great year overall for Metal... My personal honorable mention is Foxor, great metal from Canada

[@william8516]

same but include trivium and bfmv

[@Hellenicheavymetal]

Cant pick one but top 3 are 1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet, Unto Others - Strength and Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers

[@spencergrady5501]

The Body & Big Brave collaboration on Thrill Jockey was my favourite 'metal' album of the year. Shout outs to Cynic and Emptiness, too.

[@heluphicclovanass8954]

I missed a lot of stuff this year; I have to thank you for this video.

[@ImpureContagion]

Not one mention of the new 1914. So far, in no order, my top five is. Wode, Hulder, 1914, Miasmata, and Demoniac (even though Demoniac came out at the very ass end of 2020).

[@chufa72]

My top 5: Kal El-Dark Majesty King Woman-Celestial Blues Dvne-Etemen Aenka Asphyx-Necroceros Iron Maiden-Senjutsu

[@mikeb4858]

That Kal-el is amazing! It would be top 3 for me this year but the Green Lung album is so fucking tasty.

[@chufa72]

@@mikeb4858 Yea, Green Lung, Bongzilla; lots of great stoner/doom stuff this year!

[@nickfoster9350]

Great video and lists. I love the diversity with each persons picks. With that said; I' am a little surprised that not a single mention was given to Cannibal Corpse, Rivers of Nihil, or Archspire. Keep banging, BangerTV. \M/

[@joshthemetalnerd8083]

Sarah's picks are almost always my favorites

[@longshipventures]

This fuckin episode is absolutely the best part of xmas for me every year- pls never stop making this episode...

[@metalvideos1961]

Absence Of Life - Instinct Of Self Destruction Taiga - Right To Remember Borgne - Temps Morts Sadness - ______ Sadness - April Rain Thy Catafalque - Vadak Nihilistium - Evocation Of The Reaper's Bane Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm Nervosa - Perpetual Chaos Anti - Anti An Autumn For Crippled Children - As the Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes just to name some of my favorite albums this year

[@metalheadrailfan]

These are all my favorites from this year: Silver Talon - Decedence & Decay Exodus - Persona Non Grata Vulture - Dealin' Death Haunt - Beautiful Distraction Crystal Viper - The Cult Blazon Stone - Damnation Toledo Steel - Heading For the Fire Eternity's End - Embers of War Carcass - Torn Arteries Warrior Path - The Mad King Emerald Rage - High King Ancient Empire - Priest of Stygia Flotsam and Jetsam - Blood in the Water Unto Others - Strength Kryptos - Force of Danger Hitten - Triumph and Tragedy Pounder - Breaking the World Demiser - Through the Gate Eternal Ironbound - The Lightbringer Knife - Knife Portrait - At One With None Split Heaven - Electric Spell Creatures - Creatures Evile - Hell Unleashed Enforced - Kill Grind Helloween - Helloween Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined At The Gates - The Nightmare

[@alejandromolina2435]

Vulture is my list too!

[@bottishg]

Great list with many of my own favorites ... but where`s FORTRESS = ?? You should take a look (or better both ears) at their debut "Don`t spare the wicked" ... it`s one of my absolute top albums of the year!

[@OctoGobbins]

Unto Others was definitely a surprise for me, really cool sound. Beast in Black - Dark Connection and Baest - Necrosapiens are definitely my top two albums this year, plenty of good stuff this year like Criminal - Sacrificio or Archspire - Bleed the Future are also amazing albums.

[@mattchandler600]

Great variety in this year's picks! Some of my favourites this year: Mastodon - Hushed and Grim Gojira - Fortitude Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound Omnium Gatherum - Origin Rivers of Nihil - The Work Be'lakor - Coherence Green Lung - Black Harvest VOLA - Witness Soen - Imperial At the Gates - The Nightmare of Being Definitely going to give Unto Others a listen!

[@puppetmaster8551]

Coherence was awesome. I recommend checking out the album in continuum by destinity, some really good melodeath, that’s my #3 album of the year behind hushed and grim and coherence

[@mattchandler600]

@@puppetmaster8551 Nice, I'll check it out. Thanks!

[@cowmark67]

Awesome picks from the crew. A mixture of expected and unexpected picks. I was visually excited when Riley mentioned Havukruunu as one of her favorites. It didn't make my list since its an EP but it's so good. It's my second favorite EP on my list of favorite EPs of the year.

[@thenextchicken]

My top picks would probably be: Mastodon - Hushed and Grim BTBAM - Colors II Der Weg einer Freiheit - Noktvrn Amenra - De Doorn

[@utku70]

Leaving aside my all-time favourites, Iron Maiden and Helloween... Top 3 albums of the year in my opinion: 1. Moonspell - Hermitage 2. Gojira - Fortitude 3. Witherfall - Curse of Autumn

[@jordanmoran1983]

Dvne, Mastodon, gojira and not really metal but failure new album as a late entry is great. I honestly can't remember what was this year and what was last. Apparently hellripper was last year. Oh and knife kicks ass. Pretty much anything on dying victims is class including, as mentioned, heavy sentence. Olde - pilgrimage ep on sludgelord was another high point too.

[@BangerTV]

That failure record is great, we’ll check out Olde.

[@jeremybutterfield8654]

I don’t always check in, but when I do I rarely walk away empty-handed. Thank you for the amazing content the channel consistently provides. I do however want to take a moment and thank you for turning me on to Hooded Menace. Holy fuck this band!!!! I cannot thank you enough. Holy shit. Just… shit!!! Soooooo good. Its a gift that just keeps on giving. So thanks and happy holidays!

[@Sharvictus]

Bangor TV is so good at showing me bands that I have never heard of and would never know about if not for them. I absolutely feel like a filthy casual but it is quite humbling

[@BangerTV]

That’s what we’re here for! Thanks.

[@mrpositronia]

Even Banger still need to hear Ningen Isu, from Japan. If these guys were westerners, they'd be categorised in the same division as ACDC, Priest, Sabbath, Maiden etc. No joke. Just know they sing in Japanese.

[@KRAElliott]

Top album for me is Ward of Roses by The Silver. There was a lot of loss in our family this year and that album really resonated with me and had me coming back often

[@MisterBrimm]

There were too many great albums, I could only try and whittle it down to a top 12, and that was rough. Veilburner - Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull Arroganz - Morsus Deviant Process - Nurture Inferi - Vile Genesis VILDHJARTA - måsstaden under vatten Altarage - Succumb Kjeld - Ôfstân Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning WORM - Foreverglade Moonspell - Hermitage Adliga - Vobrazy Plebeian Grandstand - Rien ne suffit

[@dogfrog9543]

Good year overall, thanks for all the great content BTV. Heavy Holidays! Heres some stuff I found this year: Furtherial - Liberation Path Nanga Parbat - Downfall and Torment The Day of the Beast - Indisputably Carnivorous Clines Mind - The Dying Earth Angelus Apatrida Ekulu - Unscrew My Head Mentor - Wolves Wraiths and Witches Prayers of Sanity - Doctrine of Mysanthropy Path of Destiny - The Seed of All Evil Anomaly - Planet Storm

[@garl0612]

the "how to get into" series was fantastic, really enjoyed it thanks! currently wearing a None shirt because of it :)

[@BangerTV]

That’s awesome ! Thanks

[@rocioiribe5841]

NONE is incredible! a band i discovered here as well

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

This was a great video, lots of diversity! I'll give my Top 10, since I have a few uncommon picks: 1. Humanity's Last Breath - Välde 2. Vildhjarta - Måsstaden Under Vatten (This one might move, I can't tell if I really love it this much, or if I'm just mindblown still) 3. Trivium - In The Court of the Dragon 4. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready 5. Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of Hell 6. Whitechapel - Kin 7. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined 8. Converge + Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I 9. Archspire - Bleed The Future 10. Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers Shoutouts to: Worm (This album is so close to the 10), Spiritbox, Slaughter to Prevail, Portal, Full of Hell, Ad Nauseam, Obscura, Creeping Death (An EP, but it's longer than Full of Hell's album, lmao), Night Crowned, Gojira, Jinjer, Mental Cruelty, Osiah, Distant, Cognitive, Alustrium, Alluvial, Fractal Universe, Carcass, At The Gates, Rivers of Nihil, Brand of Sacrifice, Pyrexia, Carcosa, Ice Nine Kills, Epica, Aborted, Vulvodynia, Helllight, ERRA, Born of Osiris, Inferi, The Breathing Process, Signs of the Swarm, and Worm Shepherd, as well as whatever I'm sure I'm forgetting!

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

Adding more to this list: Funeral, Spectral Wound, Cerebral Rot, Mortiferum, and Skepticism. Witch Vomit's EP was a banger, but the vox were really buried, it kinda took away it for me, cause they sounded great when you could hear them.

[@MassHysteriaHD]

Masstaden under vatten is untouched by any of these other bands right now!

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

@@MassHysteriaHD in terms of sheer creativity, I would completely agree. However, it is A LOT of album to digest. I wouldn't have it any other way, though.

[@DamageCity]

Great job everyone and it's nice to see Sam's hands haven't stop moving since his last video.

[@SamAstaroth]

Haha never stops moving 🤣 🤘🏽

[@twomartoes]

My Picks: - Uada: Djinn - Vreid: Wild North West - Oracle: Perseverance - Cradle of filth: Existence is futile - Unto others: Strength

[@chkchrycla]

Uada was last year.

[@rattlhed1]

Love the video and after watching this video there are a lot of records from 2021 for me to check out that I missed during the year. The great music just keeps on coming! Here are my top 10 of the year.... 1. Between the Buried and Me - Colors II 2. Rivers of Nihil - The Work 3. Iotunn - Access All Worlds 4. Son of Sam - And the Monsters Awoke… 5. Orden Ogan - Final Days 6. Hélios - Devenir Le Soleil 7. The Crown - Royal Destroyer 8. Frontierter - Oxidized 9. Yoth Iria - As the Flame Withers 10. Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle

[@sussereini383]

The pandemic has certainly given several musicians out there lots of time to work on new material. Can't complain! Really eases my nerves to see that at least music production didn't come to a halt, when it feels otherwise that the time has stopped. My personal favorite album is by a rather small, pretty unknown band called Soulglass. Their debut album Odeth, that came out this year is probably one of my all time favorites tbh. \m/

[@EduardoHenrique-vf4id]

at the gates - the nightmare of being carcass - torn arteries Crypta - Echoes Of The Soul nervosa - perpetual chaos deafheaven - infinite granite Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers Hypocrisy - Worship

[@fullmetalguy8357]

The love for Hooded Menace and Unto Others is well received, instant picks for me. Other favourites: Dream Unending - Tide Turns Eternal (Blayne, get on this) Lamp of Murmuur - Submission and Slavery Këht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman (the trendy Bandcamp pick) Mystras - Empires Vanquished and Dismantled 1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet

[@tylerport7909]

My picks are too mainstream with Mastodon, Rivers of Nihil and Gojira.

[@billcowan5539]

It’s my favorite time of the year 🤘 I love the different genres of Metal that you all picked 🙏 Thank you Banger👍👍🔥🤘🤘

[@cookieeaturface]

Be'lakor - Coherence and Knocked Loose - A Tear in the Fabric of Life are probably my top picks, based on spins at the very least! Great picks and great vid!

[@heck75nj]

Jinjer ( Wallflowers ) Discovered this band a few months ago and went right up my top favorite....mind blowing

[@coreydinardo5525]

Just clicked play. If THE CYCLIC RECKONING by Suffering Hour isn't on here, I'ma lose my shit. Also, can I just say Blayne is such a sweetie? Funniest dude on the whole channel.

[@grindcoremaniac]

Hell yeah, that album is on my top 10. Some insane guitar work on those songs.

[@matheuskc2287]

My top 5 this year: - Mastodon: Hushed and Grim - Swallow the Sun: Moonflowers - Paranorm - Empyrean - Siderean: Lost on Void's Horizon - Between the Buried and Me: Colors II

[@kwstasgodzi3653]

excuse me. BTBAM NEW ALBUM?? I was so busy i didnt notice. Thank you man , ua re a legend

[@Hellenicheavymetal]

Swallow the Suns was a masterpiece

[@timfletch]

Mastodons Hushed & Grim for me, More than I could chew, Gobblers of Dregs, and Eyes of Serpents, 3 of my fav songs of the year by a long shot

[@DanielJBlackwood]

Necroceros kinda has that Bolt Thrower, early Obituary vibe, but with modern production. I'm digging it!